Special Screenings 2021 / Sny o toulavých kočkách / Czech Republic, USA, France 2021
“Do you know what I’ve always wanted to find out, brother? Where do you get your ideas for your drawings?” director David Sís asks his older brother Petr at the beginning of the film. He doesn’t get an answer right away, but perhaps it can be found in this documentary that, with great care, traces the highly successful career of a talented and multifaceted artist whose work crosses generational and geographic boundaries.
“Do you know what I’ve always wanted to find out, brother? Where do you get your ideas for your drawings?” director David Sís asks his older brother Petr at the beginning of the film. Instead of answering, the internationally renowned artist lets this expansive documentary speak for him as it traces his life from childhood and forced emigration to the United States, through to the present day. Via a collage of archival materials, interviews, and animated segments, the film captures the life of this immensely talented Renaissance man, journalist, one of the first Czech DJs, and animator whose film The Heads (1980) earned an award at the Berlinale… and that was just the start of his career. A homage free of pathos but characterized by immense respect and (brotherly) love. That is Dreams About Stray Cats.
Anna Kořínek
96 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director David Sís
/ Screenplay David Sís
/ Dir. of Photography Vít Bělohradský
/ Music Robert Jíša, Dominik Renč
/ Editor Alexandr Brož, David Votava
/ Producer Vít Bělohradský, Kateřina Bělohradská
/ Production Frmol s. r. o.
/ Coproduction Česká televize
/ Contact FRMOL s.r.o.
/ Distributor Asociace českých filmových klubů
www: www.snyotoulavychkockach.cz
David Sís (1962, Prague). Selected filmography: Hat-Trick (1992, short), Maltchik (1994, short), Causa Kain (1998, TV film), Lucie: The Story of a Rock Band (2016, doc.), Mafia (2018, TV film, doc.), Dreams About Stray Cats (2021, doc.).
FRMOL s.r.o.
Štítného 1233/34, 130 00, Praha 3
Czech Republic
E-mail: [email protected]
Asociace českých filmových klubů
Stonky 860, 686 01, Uherské Hradiště
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 572 501 989
E-mail: [email protected]
David Sís
Film Director
Petr Sís
Protagonist
Vít Bělohradský
Producer
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